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...bawdy parties raging inside 28 Perkins Hall some eight-and-a-half decades ago would have made the present-day Mather Lather seem positively Puritan. Harvard boys in ladies’ clothes danced and drank in the dorm room of Eugene W. Roberts, Class of 1922, allegedly “the ringleader of a vibrant homosexual subculture” on campus.This salacious scene is central to the story-line of William Wright’s latest book, “Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals.” But just as Wright?...
William prynne lived in troubled times. in 1637, when the Puritan preacher was convicted of seditious libel for his Taliban-like rantings, England was mired in political and social unrest; the Civil War was only five years away. With no police force, crime was so wildly out of control that the death penalty was routine - by the end of the 17th century it was prescribed for more than 150 offenses. Prynne got off lightly: he was fined ?5,000, had both ears cut off, and was branded on his cheeks with the letters...
Last Friday was a quiet milestone in the history of Harvard University’s growth from a small college endowed with little more than the estate of a puritan minister to the rich and powerful academic force it is today. But unlike other important moments in Harvard’s history, there was no pomp and circumstance surrounding this one—only Jack R. Meyer, the man who oversaw the more than five fold growth of Harvard’s riches in just 15 years, walking out of Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) Boston offices...
...totally reinvented himself. I'm a direct 10th-generation descendant of William Bradford, who came over on the Mayflower and was one of our Puritan fathers. My folks were Puritans. There was a great deal of repression in their lives and the way they were raised and, in turn, the way I was raised. I escaped early on into dreams and fantasies fueled by music and movies...
...true reinvention of my life are remarkable. My comic strip was just like the magazine--an idealized story of my life, with myself at center stage. I reinvented myself as this other person and used the magazine as the promotional tool to accomplish that. Instead of the Puritan world that my folks accepted and, from my perspective, paid the price for, I created a world for myself...